Game of Thrones (TV Series)

The Wolf and the Lion (2011)

Julian Glover: Grand Maester Pycelle

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• [at the small council meeting about Daenerys Targeryen] 

  Robert Baratheon : The whore is pregnant.

  Eddard Stark : You're speaking of murdering a child.

  Robert Baratheon : I warned you this would happen, back in the North. I warned you, but you didn't care to hear. Well, hear it now: I want them dead. Mother and child both, and that fool Viserys as well. Is that plain enough for you? I want them both dead!

  Eddard Stark : [quietly]  You'll dishonor yourself forever if you do this.

  Robert Baratheon : [raises his voice]  Honor? I've got Seven Kingdoms to rule! One king, Seven Kingdoms! Do you think honor keeps them in line? Do you think it's honor that's keeping the peace? It's fear! Fear and blood!

  Eddard Stark : Then we're no better than the Mad King!

  Robert Baratheon : Careful, Ned, careful now!

  Eddard Stark : You want to assassinate a girl because the Spider heard a rumor?

  Lord Varys : No rumor, my lord, the princess is with child.

  Eddard Stark : Based on whose information?

  Lord Varys : Ser Jorah Mormont. He is serving as advisor to the Targaryens.

  Eddard Stark : Mormont? You bring us the whispers of a traitor half a world away and call it fact.

  Petyr Baelish : Jorah Mormont's a slaver, not a traitor. Small difference, I know, to an honorable man.

  Eddard Stark : He broke the law, betrayed his family, fled our land. We commit murder on the word of this man?

  Robert Baratheon : And if he's right? If she has a son, a Targaryen at the head of a Dothraki army? What then?

  Eddard Stark : The narrow sea still lies between us. I'll fear the Dothraki the day they teach their horses to run on water.

  Robert Baratheon : Do nothing. That's your wise advice? Do nothing 'til our enemies are on our shores?

  [Robert looks around angirly at the other council members] 

  Robert Baratheon : You're my council: counsel! Speak sense to this honorable fool!

  Lord Varys : I understand your misgivings, my lord. Truly, I do. It is a terrible thing we must consider, a vile thing. Yet we who presume to rule must sometimes do vile things for the good of the realm. Should the gods grant Daenerys a son, the realm will bleed.

  Grand Maester Pycelle : I bear this girl no ill will, how many innocents will die? How many towns will burn? Is it not wiser, kinder even, that she should die now so that tens of thousands might live?

  Renly Baratheon : We should've had them both killed years ago.

  Petyr Baelish : When you find yourself in bed with an ugly woman, best close your eyes, get it over with. Cut her throat. Be done with it.

  Eddard Stark : [walks right up to Robert]  I followed you into war. Twice. Without doubts, without second thoughts. But I will not follow you now. The Robert I grew up with didn't tremble at the shadow of an unborn child.

  Robert Baratheon : She dies.

  Eddard Stark : I will have no part in it.

  Robert Baratheon : You're the King's Hand, Lord Stark. You'll do as I command, or I'll find me a Hand who will.

  [Ned takes off his badge of office and tosses it onto the table in front of Robert] 

  Eddard Stark : And good luck to him. I thought you were a better man.

  Robert Baratheon : Out. Out, damn you, I'm done with you!

  [Ned turns and walks out] 

  Robert Baratheon : Go, run back to Winterfell! I'll have your head on a spike!

  [Ned walks through the throne room as Robert's shouts trail after him] 

  Robert Baratheon : I'll find her myself, you fool! You think you're too good for this? Too proud and honorable? This is a war!